BIOGRAPHY
Alexey Botvinov
Alexey Botvinov is an exceptional pianist, musical innovator and producer. The most acclaimed Ukrainian pianist, Botvinov is one of the best specialists in Rachmaninoff music worldwide. Botvinov is the only pianist in the world who performed Bach‘s masterpiece „Goldberg Variations“ more than 300 times on stage. Alexey Botvinov is initiator and president of “Odessa Classics” – one of the best European music festivals.
EVENTS
The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.
This evening Alexey Botvinov will perform together with Burhan Öçal.
Organizer Odessa Classics.
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The Tota Pulchra Association, with the patronage and support of the Kicco Music record company of Milan, is pleased to invite the public to "The Trinity of Sound" Symbolic and Spiritual Concert, a unique musical event.
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An evening that poetically combines music, art, and existential questions of human existence.
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The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.
The author, who has been translated into all world languages, is one of the most determined critics of current Russian politics.
Text by Mikhail Shishkin (in German) with music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich
Organizer Odessa Classics
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Valentin Silvestrov’s “Moments of Memory” (V) premiered in Istanbul in June 2025 and will be presented for the first time in Germany at the Beethovenfest Bonn.
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Alexey Botvinov was honored with the highest award by the Société Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris in October 2024. Arguably the most renowned Ukrainian pianist of our time, he has close ties to Zurich; among other, he organizes his international music festival Odessa Classics.
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PROJECTS
International music festival
„Odessa Classics“ has already become a serious competitor to the established high-level cultural and musical European Festivals.
In the past three years the promoters took great effort in organizing an impressively versatile program of highest standards. Its enormous success justifies to spread the news as a precious insider tip to the Western world.
Goldberg. Reloaded
In 2010, Alexey Botvinov and Burhan Öçal started the “Goldberg. Reloaded” project. It was a revolutionary attempt to rethink Bach’s eternal music, combining it with the ethnorhythms of the East and lighting special effects. Öçal and Botvinov played more than 20 concerts on the most famous stages of the world.
Read morePismovnik. Elegie
At the heart of the performance lies Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “Pismovnik”. The production draws upon the novel’s central thread — lyrical and at the same time deeply philosophical. For this project, Alexey Botvinov created a stage adaptation of the novel, arranged the music, and for the first time took on the roles of director and stage designer.
Read moreDISCOGRAPHY
MUSIC FOR A NEW CENTURY
VALENTIN SILVESTROV - Daniel Hope · Alexey Botvinov
MUSIC FOR UKRAINE - Daniel Hope · Alexey Botvinov
SCHNITTKE - Works for Violin and Piano
Botvinov plays Rachmaninov
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World press review
KOLNISCHEN RUNDUSCHAU, 10 October 2006
“Alexey Botvinov is a magnificent pianist”.
TAGES ANZEIGER, Zurich, 5 September 2006
“…performance was so convincingly pure and sincere”.
BASLER ZEITUNG, Basel, 5 September 2006
“Splendid performance!”
Music, a planetary language
Destinations. Ukraine introduces one of the best pianists of our time, Odessa native Alexey Botvinov. Since 2014, every summer Alexey has been hosting the Odessa Classics International Music Festival in his native Odessa, whose popularity has been growing exponentially. Over five incomplete years, Odessa Classics has joined the major league of music festivals in Eastern Europe.
Ukrainian pianist Botvinov sets world record in Berlin.
Prominent Ukrainian musician Alexey Botvinov is the only pianist in the world who has performed Bach's most complicated masterpiece Goldberg Variations 300 times.
The jubilee 300th performance took place in the Berlin Philharmonic chamber music hall on Wednesday evening.
Missa Pacis - world premiere in Odessa
For the first time in Ukraine and around the world heard the music that combines classical traditions of Western Mass, and the elements of piano improvisation. Artists resumed at a concert almost forgotten tradition in the modern classical concert practice. At the same time, the author of the work, Günther Schumacher, was present at the premiere.
